Jalil Muntaqim, Jailed 48 Years, Has 12 th Parole Hearing This Year May 21, 2019, New York – Today, a group of prominent academics, lawyers, and activists published an open letter calling for the...
Ashley Diamond Home at Last August 9, 2022 – Ashley Diamond, a Black transgender woman who has twice sued the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) for refusing to protect her from sexual assault...
Black August began in the 1970s to mark the assassination of incarcerated political prisoners like the revolutionary organizer and writer George Jackson during a prison rebellion in California. Black...
Updated: September 30, 2024
New York, NY – Today, Black firefighters ask the court to rule in their favor in a lawsuit charging the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) with discriminatory hiring practices. The case, filed by the...
January 2014Evangelical advocates, having failed here, are finding friendlier audiences all over the world. Long before President Obama selected three gay athletes to lead the American delegation to the Sochi...
December 21, 2020We're suing ICE and DHS for information on terror tactics used in arrests [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Wednesday, we joined with the Immigrant Defense Project (IDP) to file a Freedom of...
Tucked amid the jagged mountain ranges of Yemen resides the sleepy town of Bayt Ghazy. Home to an idyllic agrarian community, it also provides the backdrop for the heartrending documentary “Waiting...
Updated: November 14, 2014
November 17, 2015Last week’s terrorist attacks in Beirut and Paris left 172 people dead, hundreds more injured, and the world reeling in grief and recoiling in horror. The carnage in Beirut drew little Western media...
Join us in Washington DC on April 28 and 29 for an “International Drone Summit: Killing and Spying by Remote Control”hosted by CODEPINK, Reprieve, and the Center for Constitutional Rights...
Updated: April 24, 2012
In the depths of the Sonora Desert an unidentified body is found decomposing under the hot sun. The only marker is an exposed tattoo that reads “Dayani Cristal”. Join the Bertha Justice...
Updated: September 8, 2014
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